"Brother, since Su Yue is afraid of you, why bother so much? Let's tell Su Yue directly, if he doesn't allow you to be the leader of this city, we will withdraw from the covenant. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The leader said angrily: "Confused! Where am I that Su Yue is afraid of? Instead, I'm afraid of the city behind us! It was the thousands of people in the city who were afraid. If the people of the city support the leader, then the leader is the city, and Su Yue will naturally be afraid; If the people in the city do not support the chief, then the chief is not a city, but a man with more land and more slaves, what is he afraid of? ”

The clan brother still didn't understand the difference, but he didn't ask Wei Wei much more for approval, and the leader sighed, "Fortunately, the laborers are stupid and easy to be fooled. Ji Xia thinks that he has a reason in his mouth and a soldier in his hand, but I want to see how these things can face thousands of angry people! ”

At night, Chen Jian really did not attack at night as he expected, and he was convinced that there were still a large number of soldiers in ambush nearby, Chen Jian had an absolute advantage, and he made up his mind that he would never go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with Chen Jian and Pingdi, as long as he held the city for more than ten days, let this matter pass back to Sucheng, and his position as the leader would be as stable as a mountain.

After going back, he immediately gathered his manpower, only saying that he would prepare a banquet for Ji Xia and others to enter the city tomorrow, and reassure everyone in the city that the battle could not be fought, and he would rather not be the leader than let the relatives fight and shed blood.

After being pacified, food was prepared in the city, even if they had quarreled on the city wall before, the people in the city felt that this battle could not be fought, but they had sworn an oath last winter, how could they still fight after the alliance?

In a few huts in the southwest corner of the city wall, a thin old mother asked her son, "Why do you want to fight again?" Last winter, the old leader went to the alliance, why did he still fight after the alliance? How long will this battle take? ”

Without waiting for his son to answer, the old man pointed to a large clay pot in the house and said, "A few days ago, the new leader gave everyone a piece of wine, and you just need to eat me and you are reluctant, and you still complain about me." How old are you, and how do you know how to live? Tomorrow I will go and exchange this urn of wine for some corn, if I really want corn to satisfy hunger, this wine will not work. Ay...... It would be nice if there was no war, and the chief said, and when the grain was harvested in the autumn, each family would have a share, and that the river would not flood this year, and that it would be better to open some more land next year. ”

The son knew that he couldn't explain it to his mother, so he simply agreed casually and said with relief: "Mother, this battle can't be fought." I didn't really believe in our new leader, but today on the city wall, I realized that even if it is not good, it is still close to the people in my own city. I will sleep first to nourish my strength, you sharpen the stone spear for me, and wake me up at dawn tomorrow. ”

The mother was startled and asked urgently, "Don't you say that this battle can't be fought?" Why do you have to prepare a stone spear again? ”

"I can't fight, I will open the city early tomorrow morning, the one named Ji Xia wants to reason with the leader, although the leader didn't say anything, but I have already talked to a few people, and spontaneously stood behind the leader, only to let those Xia City people know that there are still warriors in the city. We will all be convinced of reasoning, but if he is unreasonable because of the large number of people, I will not agree. Don't forget, call me early tomorrow. ”

The mother sighed and nagged, "I don't know what you're going to do, but it's a matter between the heads of the people, so don't talk nonsense even if you go and stand." Again, you can't be the same as your father's temper, stand in front of everything and stand behind others, you think it's a shame to occupy behind others, but where does a mother care about face? Just don't lose my baby......"

In the nagging, the son's snoring has sounded, the mother sighed, couldn't bear to count, tremblingly climbed to the wooden pier from the beam of the house to get down last year's dried meat cut a small piece as a side to the son's breakfast tomorrow morning, looking at some small and finally cut a little more, the housekeeper's kitten came to sniff, did not wait for the slap to fall and swished away, looking up at the rope tied to the beam of the house Reverie is infinite.

By the light of the moon, the old man took out the bundles of flax skins and peeled them off little by little, pondering how to make them into threads and weave them into cloth, and then change them for some threads and weave cloth again, so that he could always add a new piece of cloth for his son before winter.

Then, in the middle of the night, both of them died.

They were all burned to death, but the kitten didn't die, and ran out when it caught fire.

There were a few others who were burned to death with the two of them, and when they came out of the broken ruins where they had landed, their faces were dark and their bodies were twisted and curled up in a ball. There were also two who were guarding the walls that were not burned to death, but were killed and thrown off the walls.

After the fire burned for a while, the drums shook violently, and many people shouted: "Ji Xia has sent someone to use ropes to tie up the city wall!" ”

The city, which was already panicked by this nameless fire, panicked even more, and the truth spread with the sound of drums soon spread to the whole city, a smell of cooked meat wafted through the streets along with smoke and dust, and several charred corpses were placed in the most conspicuous places on the street, and the suppressed and angry emotions spread in the hearts of the people of the city.

The human heart is separated from the belly, and it is difficult for people to know. However, the adobe wall could not stop the fire and shouting, when the fire was soaring, Chen Jian was checking the equipment used in the siege this time, and several people pushed a few two-wheeled carriages from the river in the distance.

The two carriages were connected together as a base, and the top was a thick wooden plank, which was very wide and needed to be pushed forward by manpower, which had always been loaded on the ship, and it was also where Chen Jian's confidence in this siege lies.

The young man of Xia Cheng, who pretended to be smart, looked at this strange thing, thought of the story that happened in a distant place that Jian Chen had told, and said to the people of Sucheng next to him: "Do you know what this is for? Ji Xia once told a story that people can be hidden here, and then we pretend that we can't attack the city, and when we retreat, the opposite side will definitely open the city gate and carry this thing into the city as a trophy. The ...... hidden inside when the time comes"

Before he finished speaking, he was hit by Chen Jian's brain crash and said, "Do you think the people in the city are stupid?" They're going to carry this thing in for no reason? Besides, even if you carry it in, do you know where you are? Why did you have to put it at the gate near the city walls? If it is placed in a crowded place in the city, what is the use of hiding three or five people? ”

"What ...... this thing?"

The soldiers scratched their heads strangely, and Jian Chen lifted a layer of bark covering the outside, revealing the thick powder rope inside, and several people were so frightened that they quickly pushed away from the bonfire.

Inside is gunpowder, which has been accumulated by Natsujo since the spring when it has been transported to Aushiro. The frame on the wheels was made of thick wooden planks, because the black powder could not explode only by deflagration in an unsealed space, and the thick planks were firmly fixed with glue and tenon, like a large coffin.

Gunpowder bombing the city is a very not advanced technology, but this method of not being deep or even a little turtle sometimes needs a flash of inspiration.

In his previous life, Zheng Chenggong had the most hope of recovering the mountains and rivers, besieging the city of Nanjing, the city wall was strong, the artillery bombardment was ineffective, and finally he was defeated and retreated. Two hundred years later, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom came up with the idea of blasting the city wall with gunpowder, digging tunnels and using coffins to charge them to break the city in one fell swoop, and often used it in later battles.

Today's walls are neither tall nor strong, they are nothing more than a thick layer of adobe, and even the gates are a large pile of wooden fences, which can be used to sufficient effect without digging tunnels.

Although Chen Jian felt that the Trojan horse plan was slightly stupid and unrealistic, he still had the idea to learn from, and he added some wood to these large coffins filled with gunpowder to make a kind of siege equipment that did not exist in this era, similar to a shield cart: soldiers could push the cart forward, and use the wooden planks to fend off the bows and arrows on the opposite side to get close to the city gate.

It is unlikely that the people in the city will open the door and take this thing in, but if you pretend to be defeated and leave the thing there, the leader of the city will definitely show off your might and come to check on the morale of the defenders.

After all, he is not an aggressor, but an intervening army, he is here to help the son of the old chief, not to capture and seize it, and it is difficult to organize an effective resistance under the huge shock.

This also made a good advertisement for Xia Cheng's weapons, which was easy to promote, and turned the siege of attrition that would have taken a year or two to end into a siege war in the whole cultural circle, so that more clans could choose to fight in the field instead of defending the city, improve the tactical level and discipline, and facilitate the promotion of chariots and the understanding of cavalry advantages, as well as promote the emergence of disciplined infantry, and prepare in advance for foreign expansion after unification.

Since Sutang is here, the soldiers of Sucheng are also here, and the city opposite, those who witnessed this battle will definitely remember the shock of hundreds of catties of gunpowder detonating at the same time in the future.

This city is in the east, Sucheng is in the middle, and Xia is in the west. In this era of slower message transmission, it is easier for more cities to know about this news by spreading the news in a three-point flowering way.

With such a plan, Jian Chen naturally didn't dare to be careless, and told the soldiers about the things to be aware of one by one, including how to pretend to retreat, etc., and let the person with the greatest courage and calmest in Xia Cheng be responsible for the ignition before retreating, and the fire rope soaked in vinegar would burn for a long time, and there would be enough time to retreat.

When the fire broke out in the city, it was the time when Jian Chen spat and told everyone about tomorrow's tactics, including how to take advantage of the chaos caused by the explosion to quickly storm the streets once the other party's leader was not killed.

The conversation was interrupted, and the soldiers looked up at the fires in the distant city, listened to the chaotic and noisy drumming, did not know what was happening, and waited anxiously for the soldiers who were lying in ambush below to report back what they had heard.

"Could it be that the city ** is strife, someone really opened the door for us as Ji Xia said?"

After hearing this, Chen Jian smiled and only said that this is good, but it is better to save the fight, it is best not to shed blood between relatives, and there is no need to die or be injured, this is the ancestor to protect Yunyun.

But I was annoyed in my heart: Don't be like this, how can I stage this well-planned advertisement? How can Su Yue have enough confidence and courage to quickly wage war against those clans without worrying about the attrition of the siege? How can Su Yue's ambition be inflated to the extreme?

Since the verbal artillery cannot be unified and must be fought, then it is necessary to fight early, large-scale, and large-scale battles, and this is the fastest way to end the turmoil. I want to make an example for Su Yue! (To be continued.) )